Mary Rakow is an American novelist.
She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from University of California, Riverside, in 1970, from Harvard University with a master's degree in Theological Studies, and from Boston College with a Ph.D. in Theology, Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honor Society. Her work has appeared in Works & Conversations. She has appeared on Writers on Writing, with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett KUCI-FM.
Rakow is a member of PEN Center USA/West, where she has mentored in the PEN Rosenthal Emerging Voices Program.
Rakow is a novelist and freelance editor living in San Francisco as an urban hermit in the ancient Catholic Christian tradition.